 Ishmael was to become a great nation, — that he was to be a wild man, — his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him.  Mahometanism - Page 30by John Gibson Cazenove - 1856 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Augustus Warner Williams, Mgrditch Simbad Gabriel - Armenia - 1896 - 516 pages
...Ishmael ever bent their haughty necks to servitude. For more than two thousand years Ishmael had been "a wild man; his hand against every man and every man's hand against him " and now the other word " I will make him a great nation " was about to receive its fulfillment.... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1907 - 178 pages
...Ishmaelites (76), descendants of Ishniael, son of Abraham and Hagar, of whom it was said, "And he will be a wild man: his hand against every man , and every man's hand against him " (Genesis xvi. 12). mortar. See pestle-and-mortar Marylebone match (127), an annnal match... | |
 | William Nutting, D. H. Nutting - Education - 1912 - 104 pages
...They are the descendants of Ishmael, concerning whom it was prophesied (Gen. 16: 12) that he would be "a wild man;" his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and that he should "dwell in the presence of all his brethren." The Arabs, with local... | |
 | Basil Williams - Great Britain - 1913 - 478 pages
...grandfather of Chatham and great-grandfather of Pitt is a pathetic figure. Throughout his long life he was a wild man ; his hand against every man and every man's hand against him. At the end he became a tyrant, and terribly alone, as all tyrants must needs be. The habit... | |
 | De Lacy O'Leary - History - 1927 - 258 pages
...Genesis the Arabs are represented under the generic type of their reputed ancestor Ishmael : "he will be a wild man ; his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him." Later on in the same book we see that, " a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with... | |
 | Thomas Newton - Bible - 1839 - 762 pages
...father of twelve princes or heads of tribes ; and they live in clans or tribes at this day. He was a wild man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him : and they live in the same state of. war, their hand against every man, and every man's... | |
 | Missions to Jews - 1893 - 204 pages
...descendants of Ishmael dwell in tents. The prophecy concerning them is one of the oldest Gen. xvi. 12 : "A wild man .... his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him ;" yet "he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." And so it is and will be.... | |
 | J. Edwin Hartill, J. E. Hartill - Bible - 1960 - 130 pages
...when he was circumcised. This rebellion was foreshadowed even before he was born, for we read that he was to be a wild man — his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him. Ishmael was not the promised seed but he was part of the promised multiplication of Abraham.... | |
 | Basil Williams - Political Science - 1966 - 432 pages
...grandfather of Chatham and great-grandfather of Pitt is a pathetic figure. Throughout his long life he was a wild man ; his hand against every man and every man's hand against him. At the end he became a tyrant, and terribly alone, as all tyrants must needs be. The habit... | |
 | Christopher Kleinhenz, Fannie LeMoine - Religion - 1999 - 242 pages
...Abraham's illegitimate son by Sarah's handmaiden Hagar, who is cursed by Jehovah in Genesis 16: "He shall be a wild man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him."43 As the dispensationalist scenario is updated, environmental themes loom larger as well.... | |
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